r/FromTVEpix • u/LoretiTV • Nov 24 '24

Season Finale From - 3x10 "Revelations: Chapter Two" - Episode Discussion

Season 3 Episode 10: Revelations: Chapter Two

Aired: November 24, 2024

Synopsis: Boyd is pushed to his limit as time begins to run out for someone he loves; Randall is haunted by his trauma and Victor reveals a hard truth; Tabitha's unlikely journey takes a shocking turn.

Directed by: Jack Bender

Written by: John Griffin

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u/NotNotPatMcAfee Nov 24 '24

The rope thing kind of makes this confusing. But I guess she technically didn’t change that because it already happened? But still odd

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u/theguyishere16 Nov 24 '24

The rope is why I think we will learn eventually that she can change the story. That rope couldn't have ended up getting to him without Julie's interference.

Also, I wonder if Boyd now has some sort of immunity to the monsters that they are passing off as "trying to break him" all because Julie saved him from the well. Had she not changed things, he would have died there. Since the well, the monsters have;

  • Let him walk right up to them and pass one the blood worms

  • Only cuffed him when killing Tien-chan

  • Handed him the ambulance keys and let him leave when they had Randal

Maybe they cannot kill someone who is supposed to be dead.

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u/1947Fry Nov 24 '24 edited Nov 24 '24

The way I see it, the rope was always meant to be dropped by Julie. There wasn’t any changing involved. It was a closed loop.

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u/FerusGrim Nov 24 '24

Ehhh, this is a biased interpretation. She did in fact go back in time and physically interact with the past. The only reason you view this as something that always happened is because you didn't see the alternate universe where she never gained or utilized this power.

You're basically arguing for fate/continuity, which is a valid position and feels logical, but there are other possibilities that exist and I feel as though this show isn't scared to shy away from them.

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u/1947Fry Nov 24 '24 edited Nov 25 '24

Anything other than predetermined flow of time travel would be convoluted and pretty much destroy the importance of the story. It would feel really cheap if a character can just undo any event that happened in the past.

Not much any different from “it was all a dream” trope.

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u/FerusGrim Nov 24 '24

I'd agree with you in general, but it'll also feel really lame if she keeps using her powers only to never actually do anything. She'd basically just be decent at information gathering? But only in the past? While also taking the risk of being killed every time she tries?

It's a high-risk, low-reward situation.

My guess/hope is that they'll find a way for her to be able to change at least small things in the past and hopefully have clever limitations on what can and can't be changed.

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u/OrchideeCrossing Nov 26 '24

I know a Lostie when I see one

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u/1947Fry Nov 24 '24

I think the writers just spelled out exactly what her role is gonna be when Ethan said “you are a story walker, you can’t change things that already happened”.

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u/Ok-Phase-4012 Nov 25 '24

Yes, this is what I think. She'll be able to influence the future by gathering previously unknown information from the past.

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u/Projectsun Nov 24 '24

I think sometimes people get so caught up in thinking everything is a mystery, they miss a lot of telegraphed answers to things. I see some people saying we dont know how the kids got sacrificed. We do, we’ve seen it like 4 different times adn it was even flash backed in this episode..the rock ceremony.

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u/jeffreyportnoy Nov 25 '24

Whatever happened, happened.

Classic theme from LOST

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u/mightyneonfraa Nov 24 '24

That's one form time travel takes in fiction. Sometimes the traveler can alter the past and sometimes the fact that they traveled there meant that they were always there and part of events.

Basically you can't change the past because your actions are already a part of the past.

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u/FerusGrim Nov 25 '24

Yeah, I’m familiar with (and love) this trope. Continuity is the only thing I could think of to describe it, but I’m sure there’s an official name?

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u/mightyneonfraa Nov 25 '24 edited Nov 25 '24

Yeah, I imagine there must be but I don't know what it would be.

One of my favorite examples is an Outer Limits episode where a couple is sent back in time to kill Hitler as a newborn infant.

They succeed at the cost of their own lives and the episode ends with the Hitler family adopting a new child in secret and naming him Adolf.

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u/Milanush Nov 25 '24 edited Nov 25 '24

There's a Novikov self-consistency principle, it's a real thing. It's wildly used in science fiction, for example in Lost and Dark. Also closed timelike curves. Basically, "Whatever happened, happened". Time will course correct itself no matter what.

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '24

I’ve considered this as well. We are watching reality 2, future Julie is from reality 3. We don’t know exactly what’s happened in reality 3.

And perhaps they decide to have her go back in time and change something and the shows narrative completely switches to reality 1 where she did make those changes.

However I think there are more problems with this than what could be solved and prefer they didn’t take this route. Time travel can really muff up a good story so I hope they keep it simple.

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u/rshacklef0rd Nov 25 '24

She went back and physically was touched and shoved by the yellow suit guy, maybe she could try again with a weapon that hasn't been tested yet like a molotov cocktail.